Bible verses about "moderation" | WNT

²¹ The right course is to forego eating meat or drinking wine or doing anything that tends to your brother's fall.

²⁰ If you have died with Christ and have escaped from the world's rudimentary notions, why, as though your life still belonged to the world, do you submit to such precepts as ²¹ "Do not handle this;" "Do not taste that;" "Do not touch that other thing" -- ²² referring to things which are all intended to be used up and perish--in obedience to mere human injunctions and teachings? ²³ These rules have indeed an appearance of wisdom where self-imposed worship exists, and an affectation of humility and an ascetic severity. But not one of them is of any value in combating the indulgence of our lower natures.

¹⁸ Do not over-indulge in wine--a thing in which excess is so easy-- ¹⁹ but drink deeply of God's Spirit. Speak to one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and offer praise in your hearts to the Lord. ²⁰ Always and for everything let your thanks to God the Father be presented in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

¹⁰ For from love of money all sorts of evils arise; and some have so hankered after money as to be led astray from the faith and be pierced through with countless sorrows.

³ In the same way exhort aged women to let their conduct be such as becomes consecrated persons. They must not be slanderers nor enslaved to wine-drinking. They must be teachers of what is right.

²³ (No longer be a water-drinker; but take a little wine for the sake of your digestion and your frequent ailments.)

⁸ Curb every passion, and be on the alert. Your great accuser, the Devil, is going about like a roaring lion to see whom he can devour.

⁵ Let your forbearing spirit be known to every one--the Lord is near.

¹³ You however, brethren, were called to freedom. Only do not turn your freedom into an excuse for giving way to your lower natures; but become bondservants to one another in a spirit of love.

¹⁸ Do not over-indulge in wine--a thing in which excess is so easy--

⁷ and above all make your own life a pattern of right conduct, having in your teaching no taint of insincerity, but a serious tone,

²⁵ But every competitor in an athletic contest practices abstemiousness in all directions. They indeed do this for the sake of securing a perishable wreath, but we for the sake of securing one that will not perish.

¹² Everything is allowable to me, but not everything is profitable. Everything is allowable to me, but to nothing will I become a slave.